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Our Next Book Club Event Discusses ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 7, 2020 | 1 Comment

Schmitt’s book provides a detailed investigation into how pedestrian deaths have increased by 50 percent in the past decade, and how our nation's persistent patterns of racism and economic inequality play into this under-reported public health crisis.

An MBTA Route 111 bus bound for Haymarket Station uses the new inbound bus lane on North Washington Street on October 9, 2019.

MBTA Board Updates: Details Emerge on Tobin Bus Lanes, Budget Cuts

By Christian MilNeil | Nov 23, 2020 | No Comments

MBTA budget planners now predict a $584 million budget deficit for the 2022 fiscal year, which starts next summer.

Saturday: ‘Celebration of Life’ Ride Aims to Bring Black Men Together on Bikes

By Christian MilNeil | Oct 23, 2020 | No Comments

Black men and other men of color are being invited to reflect, mourn, and heal together in a “Celebration of Life” bike ride through Roxbury this Saturday. Organizer James Adius Pierre, a lifelong Cambridge resident, says that the ride is inspired by the summer’s unrest and the August 28 anniversary of the March on Washington. […]

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Makes Surprise Appearance at Boston’s ‘Ride for Black Lives’

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 1, 2020 | No Comments

On Sunday, hundreds of riders gathered in Franklin Park for the summer’s third Ride for Black Lives in Boston, which featured an appearance by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, co-chair of the Congressional Bike Caucus and a co-founder of Washington’s Future of Transportation Caucus. Before the ride started, Pressley told the crowd that “you are writing the […]

An aerial map of interstate highways proposed in the 1962 Massachusetts "Inner Belt and Expressway System" plan. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library.

Exploring Boston’s Unbuilt Highways

By Christian MilNeil | Jun 12, 2020 | No Comments

Imagine a version of greater Boston where ten-lane expressways slice through Cambridgeport and Jamaica Plain, a freeway trench has replaced the Muddy River parkland through the Fenway, and a ten-story-high stack of interchange ramps looms over Nubian Square. As dystopian as that may sound to modern ears, that was the vision for the future that […]

From the Editor: We’re Starting A Book Club

By Christian MilNeil | May 14, 2020 | No Comments

People Before Highways documents anti-highway activist movements in the Boston region in the 1960s, when unlikely coalitions stopped freeway proposals that would have demolished beloved neighborhoods and caused disproportionate harm to communities of color.

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